Abel Francois

Strasbourg University, LARGE

47 avenue de la foret Noire

Strasbourg, 67000

France

http://abelfrancois.wordpress.com/information/

University of Strasbourg - EM Strasbourg Business School

Associate Professor

PEGE

61 avenue de la Forêt Noire

Strasbourg, 67000

France

http://abelfrancois.wordpress.com/information/

Telecom ParisTech

46, rue Barrault

Paris Cedex 13, F-75634

France

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (12)

1.

Cash, Check or Bank Card? The Effects of Transaction Characteristics on the Use of Payment Instruments

Telecom Paris Economics and Social Sciences Working Paper No. ESS-06-05
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Mar 2006
David Bounie and Abel Francois
Télécom Paris and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 2,021 (16,992)
Citation 40

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Payment instruments, money

2.

Debit Card and Demand for Cash

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2013
David Bounie, Abel Francois and Patrick Waelbroeck
Télécom Paris, Strasbourg University, LARGE and Télécom Paris
Downloads 324 (196,308)
Citation 10

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Cash demand, Debit card, Endogenous ordinal probit

3.

Consumer Payment Preferences, Network Externalities, and Merchant Card Acceptance: An Empirical Investigation

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2015
David Bounie, Abel Francois and Leo Van Hove
Télécom Paris, Strasbourg University, LARGE and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Applied Economics Department
Downloads 227 (282,300)
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retail payments, payment cards, merchants, network externalities

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Merchant Acceptance of Payment Cards: ‘Must Take’ or ‘Wanna Take’?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 May 2017
David Bounie, Abel Francois and Leo Van Hove
Télécom Paris, Strasbourg University, LARGE and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Applied Economics Department
Downloads 185 (341,966)
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payment cards, merchants, two-sided markets, network externalities, must-take cards, interchange fees

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On the Effect of Mobile Phone on Migrant Remittances: A Closer Look at International Transfers

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2014
David Bounie, Dana Diminescu and Abel Francois
Télécom Paris, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 158 (392,583)
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Remittances, Mobile money transfer, transfer data

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The Demand for Currency Versus Debitable Accounts: A Reconsideration

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 May 2007
David Bounie, Abel Francois and Nicolas Houy
Télécom Paris, Strasbourg University, LARGE and University of Cergy-Pontoise - THEMA
Downloads 140 (433,115)
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Demand for money, Payment Instruments, Forecasting and Simulations

7.

The Economics of Bill Payments: An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2011
David Bounie and Abel Francois
Télécom Paris and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 130 (459,578)
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Payment Instruments, bill payments

8.

Using Political Financing Reforms to Measure Campaign Spending Effects on Electoral Outcomes

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6232
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Jan 2017
Abel Francois, Michael Visser and Lionel Wilner
Strasbourg University, LARGE, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)
Downloads 102 (551,500)

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campaign spending, elections, political financing reforms

9.

Is the Baumol's 'Square Root Law' Still Relevant? Evidence from Micro-Level Data

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 15 Jul 2006
David Bounie and Abel Francois
Télécom Paris and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 99 (562,994)

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Demand for Money

10.

Convenient Prices, Cash Payments and Price Rigidity

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2014
Yassine Bouhdaoui, David Bounie and Abel Francois
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Télécom Paris and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 92 (589,961)
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convenient prices, cash payments, price rigidity

11.

Efficient Payments and Price Distribution

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2010
Yassine Bouhdaoui, David Bounie and Abel Francois
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Télécom Paris and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 72 (679,573)

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currency denomination, monetary denomination efficiency

12.

Simultaneous Ballots, Cost of Voting and Turnout: A Random Natural Experiment

EPSA 2013 Annual General Conference Paper 225
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 May 2013
Christine Fauvelle-Aymar and Abel Francois
Université François Rabelais de Tours and Strasbourg University, LARGE
Downloads 65 (716,887)

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Electoral turnout, voting paradox, cost of voting, opportunity cost, natural experiment, random experiment